Psalms 44:1

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For the music director; by the Korahites, a well-written song. O God, we have clearly heard; our ancestors have told us what you did in their days, in ancient times.

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  • Exod 13:14-15 : 14 In the future, when your son asks you‘What is this?’ you are to tell him,‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the land of slavery. 15 When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to release us, the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of people to the firstborn of animals. That is why I am sacrificing to the LORD the first male offspring of every womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.’
  • Ps 78:3-6 : 3 What we have heard and learned– that which our ancestors have told us– 4 we will not hide from their descendants. We will tell the next generation about the LORD’s praiseworthy acts, about his strength and the amazing things he has done. 5 He established a rule in Jacob; he set up a law in Israel. He commanded our ancestors to make his deeds known to their descendants, 6 so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.
  • Ps 42:1 : 1 Book 2(Psalms 42-72) For the music director; a well-written song by the Korahites. As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God!
  • Ps 71:18 : 18 Even when I am old and gray, O God, do not abandon me, until I tell the next generation about your strength, and those coming after me about your power.
  • Ps 77:5 : 5 I thought about the days of old, about ancient times.
  • Exod 12:24-27 : 24 You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever. 25 When you enter the land that the LORD will give to you, just as he said, you must observe this ceremony. 26 When your children ask you,‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’– 27 then you will say,‘It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck Egypt and delivered our households.’” The people bowed down low to the ground,
  • Ps 105:1-2 : 1 Give thanks to the LORD! Call on his name! Make known his accomplishments among the nations! 2 Sing to him! Make music to him! Tell about all his miraculous deeds!
  • Isa 38:19 : 19 The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.
  • Joel 1:3 : 3 Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.
  • Num 21:14-16 : 14 This is why it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD,“Waheb in Suphah and the wadis, the Arnon 15 and the slope of the valleys that extends to the dwelling of Ar, and falls off at the border of Moab.” 16 And from there they traveled to Beer; that is the well where the LORD spoke to Moses,“Gather the people and I will give them water.”
  • Num 21:27-30 : 27 That is why those who speak in proverbs say,“Come to Heshbon, let it be built. Let the city of Sihon be established! 28 For fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has consumed Ar of Moab and the lords of the high places of Arnon. 29 Woe to you, Moab. You are ruined, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters the prisoners of King Sihon of the Amorites. 30 We have overpowered them; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon. We have shattered them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”
  • Deut 6:20 : 20 Exhortation to Remember the Past When your children ask you later on,“What are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that the LORD our God commanded you?”
  • Judg 6:13 : 13 Gideon said to him,“Pardon me, but if the LORD is with us, why has such disaster overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said,‘Did the LORD not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”
  • Job 8:8-9 : 8 “For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors; 9 For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.
  • Job 15:17-19 : 17 “I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare, 18 what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors, 19 to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.
  • Ps 22:31 : 31 They will come and tell about his saving deeds; they will tell a future generation what he has accomplished.

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  • Ps 78:3-6
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    3 What we have heard and learned– that which our ancestors have told us–

    4 we will not hide from their descendants. We will tell the next generation about the LORD’s praiseworthy acts, about his strength and the amazing things he has done.

    5 He established a rule in Jacob; he set up a law in Israel. He commanded our ancestors to make his deeds known to their descendants,

    6 so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.

  • 2 You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it.

  • 7 Remember the ancient days; bear in mind the years of past generations. Ask your father and he will inform you, your elders, and they will tell you.

  • 4 In you our ancestors trusted; they trusted in you and you rescued them.

  • Joel 1:2-3
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    2 A Locust Plague Foreshadows the Day of the Lord Listen to this, you elders; pay attention, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your whole life or in the lifetime of your ancestors?

    3 Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.

  • 9 “You saw the affliction of our ancestors in Egypt, and you heard their cry at the Red Sea.

  • 32 The Uniqueness of Israel’s God Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.

  • 1 Book 4(Psalms 90-106) A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our protector through all generations!

  • 17 O God, you have taught me since I was young, and I am still declaring your amazing deeds.

  • Ps 44:17-20
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    17 All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you or violated your covenant with us.

    18 We have not been unfaithful, nor have we disobeyed your commands.

    19 Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.

    20 If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,

  • 20 O LORD, there is none like you; there is no God besides you! What we heard is true!

  • Ps 48:8-9
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    8 We heard about God’s mighty deeds, now we have seen them, in the city of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, in the city of our God. God makes it permanently secure.(Selah)

    9 We reflect on your loyal love, O God, within your temple.

  • 45 Our ancestors received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, until the time of David.

  • 20 LORD, we confess that we have been wicked. We confess that our ancestors have done wrong. We have indeed sinned against you.

  • 17 For the LORD our God took us and our fathers out of slavery in the land of Egypt and performed these awesome miracles before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations.

  • 40 Then they will obey you throughout their lifetimes as they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.

  • 4 One generation will praise your deeds to another, and tell about your mighty acts!

  • 22 Therefore you are great, O Sovereign LORD, for there is none like you! There is no God besides you! What we have heard is true!

  • 11 Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us!

  • 10 The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.

  • Dan 9:14-15
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    14 The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just in all he has done, and we have not obeyed him.

    15 “Now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with great power and made a name for yourself that is remembered to this day– we have sinned and behaved wickedly.

  • 25 In earlier times you established the earth; the skies are your handiwork.

  • 34 Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

  • Deut 26:7-8
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    7 So we cried out to the LORD, the God of our ancestors, and he heard us and saw our humiliation, toil, and oppression.

    8 Therefore the LORD brought us out of Egypt with tremendous strength and power, as well as with great awe-inspiring signs and wonders.

  • 6 We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong, we have done evil.

  • 12 But God has been my king from ancient times, performing acts of deliverance on the earth.

  • 15 how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

  • 7 Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.

  • Ps 44:8-9
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    8 In God we boast all day long, and we will continually give thanks to your name.(Selah)

    9 But you rejected and embarrassed us! You did not go into battle with our armies.

  • 8 “For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors;

  • 24 We swear we have done this because we were worried that in the future your descendants would say to our descendants,‘What relationship do you have with the LORD God of Israel?

  • 6 Look, we heard about it in Ephrathah, we found it in the territory of Jaar.

  • 9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

  • 23 Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Wake up! Do not reject us forever!

  • 5 I recall the old days; I meditate on all you have done; I reflect on your accomplishments.

  • 5 By your power we will drive back our enemies; by your strength we will trample down our foes!

  • 4 Since ancient times no one has heard or perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who intervenes for those who wait for him.

  • 10 For we heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan.

  • 15 For we are resident foreigners and temporary settlers in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.